PHINGBODHIPAKKIYA
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a sculptor and installation artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Atlanta to Thai and Indonesian-Chinese immigrants, her work traces how forces of trade, conquest, and dispossession are pressed into bodies, land, and memory, and what persists in their wake. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
installation
Phingbodhipakkiya works with materials that
carry history in their grain. Reclaimed silk, rusted farm tools, porcelain shards, woven rattan, sugarcane stalks. Brought together into precarious sculptural forms, these objects trace how forces
of labor, conquest, and dispossession are pressed into bodies and land, and hold what persists in
their wake.
Her sculptures may stand as tall as a stooped elder or rise to the height of a banyan tree, their support structures concealed so the forms appear impossible, on the verge of collapse. She is interested in what endures, and in the hands, the gestures, the care that refused to let it disappear.
time owes us remembrance
In the summer of 2023, Phingbodhipakkiya traveled across Thailand to 17 provinces and 42 different textile communities to immerse in the living heritage of traditional weaving craft and to archive the stories of the women who sustain it.
In January 2024, she unveiled Time Owes Us Remembrance: a monument to making home, enduring community ties, and matrilineal inheritance that spans three levels of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center.
murals
Amanda’s murals function to reclaim space for unspoken narratives and amplifies visions of people and ideas that demand an audience. As visual catalysts for change, they reshape the landscape of cities, creating a presence that is impossible to ignore. Using lifts and ladders, and in partnership with local communities, she exhales wonder, possibility, and defiance onto expansive canvases that help the invisible feel seen.
public art campaigns
Through her public art campaigns, Amanda renders a visual language that speaks to the collective experiences and struggles of marginalized communities, giving them a louder voice to call for change. Her work interrogates art’s role as a medium for unearthing empathy, conjuring courage, and mobilizing resistance. These highly graphic images often become symbols of courage and solidarity as people use collective action to call for lasting change.
